If Monmouth can't get in this year, the MAC will never get 2 teams in again. Monmouth did everything the committee asked. Just shows you how impossible it is for the MAC moving forward.
According to the papers and news reports out here,the committee gave the following reasons for leaving Monmouth out:
1.They beat UCLA and Georgetown>But those schools weren't "impressive enough" this year.
2.They lost to Army,Canisius and Manhattan.
What really has people upset is that Syracuse got in.Especially with their coach having ot sit out games for NCAA violations and them losing 5 of their last 6.
[/QUOTE]Right and they also lost to a sub 250 RPI team I believe.
Funny how the committee conveniently ignores that fact that Monmouth also beat USC and #17 ND and lost by only 3 to Dayton, ALL of these on the road or neutral sites, NONE at home.
This is the problem, no matter how much "good" a mid-major does, the committee always looks for excuses to exclude them based on anything bad. So it only takes 1 or 2 bad things to completely negate any good done. Yet when it comes to Majors, the same thing doesn't apply. They quickly look past anything bad and brush it off.
[QUOTE=Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame] The real issue is that the selection committee has no real sense of--and therefore no respect for--how difficult it is to win on the road at many mid-major schools.
So when a team like Monmouth goes on the road and loses to Army, a 19 win team, that's automatically viewed as a bad loss. Why? Because nobody of note ever pays at Army, so there's no frame of reference for how difficult it is to win there. A loss at Army's a bad loss no matter what, because only mid-major and low major teams lose at Army. It's a cycle that perpetuates itself, and one that the major conference schools have no incentive to break.